Week 4.1 - Solving second order ODEs
clear all
close all
clc
%Inputs
b=0.05; %Damping Coefficient
g=9.81; %Gravitiy [m/s2]
l=1; % Length of Pendulum [m]
m=0.1; %Mass of ball [Kg]
ct=1;
%inital condition [angular displacment, Velocity[rad/s]
theta_0 = [0;3];
%time points
t_span = linspace(0,20,1000);
%solve ODE
[t, results]= ode45(@(t,theta) ode_func(t,theta,b,g,l,m),t_span,theta_0);
%plot
%color order for y axises
colororder({'r','b'})
%left y axis
yyaxis left
%displacement plot
plot(t,results(:,1),'Color','r','LineStyle','-')
xlabel('time [s]')
ylabel('Displacment [m]','Color','r')
hold on
%velocity plot
plot(t,results(:,2),'Color','b','LineStyle','-')
yyaxis right
ylabel('Velocity [rad/s]','Color','b')
legend('Displacment [m]','Velocity [rad/s]') %legend
title('Pendulum ODE','FontSize',11) %title
% Pendulum simulation
% Displacement results
theta2 = results(:,1);
%for loop simulate the position of the pendulum
for i = 1:length(theta2)
theta_x = theta2(i);
%pendulum pivot point(0,0)
x0= 0;
y0= 0;
%pendulum end point effected by theta value
x1 = l*sin(theta_x);
y1 = -l*cos(theta_x);
%plotting the pendulum
figure(2)
plot([-0.5 0.5],[0 0],'color','g','linewidth',10);
hold on
plot([x0 x1],[y0 y1],'color','r','linewidth',2)
hold on
plot(x1,y1,'o','markers',15,'markerfacecolor','b')
hold off
grid on
axis([-1.5 1.5 -1.5 0.5]);
pause(0.002)
%capturing each frame
M(ct) = getframe(gcf);
%changing ct index
ct = ct+1;
end
%animation
movie(M)
videofile = VideoWriter('ODE_pendulum.avi','Uncompressed avi');
open(videofile)
writeVideo(videofile,M)
close(videofile)
function [dtheta_dt] = ode_func(t,theta,b,g,l,m)
theta1=theta(1);
theta2=theta(2);
%first ODE
dtheta1_dt=theta2;
%Second ODE
dtheta2_dt=-(b/m)*theta2-(g/l)*sin(theta1);
%Solution Matrix
dtheta_dt=[dtheta1_dt;dtheta2_dt];

Pendulum Animation Link- https://youtu.be/ey-NCT1qQaA